Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1949 — Page 15
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; ; are It would strike a heavy blow part and parcel of a corrupt to take a : : By ROBERT BLOEM ite hd law. violating - profitable. fessly. through the lucrative a StgANised. orators ot Sree viet: Dy Thativi | otic] eam, a + THE DEMOCRATIC state administration faces a serious Many politicians actually Soumnation at A aoa] potios, TS Its bosses of access 10 “« sw 3 political risk in its budding plan to divorce legal liquor from EE I MN de IY be aie Tcoots. Shuck Torn 3 VOSSIELY SENSIBLE voters ht "Wil Hoosier voters ase ft Maybe it is. Take a look, for Itke this you have to be careful. brings a group of intense Gary good backdrop for their stock in Hight realise Ot by Hquoe iq: ; adie: throw out an adn because It oxample, at the “risk” involved You dare not mention nates for women charging into the Gov- trade. True, many of the legiti- hat the a3. shisrces wP-If the answer is “yes,” then a liquor law en- ., wpjiesale recocation of lg- fear you might leave one out ermor's office with no specific mate -olubs, posts and balls indirectly wha Gary go Jorcement Srackown. could, of courss, be ruinous to any admin- uor licenses from clubs and and make ail the rest mad. Is request except that he “do would have to give up their OOS of Pore 3 Fan natok ot bie city police departments or other places where excise agents it any wonder politicians are something” slots, but would the member. is uid help Jock sof. 2 > of an honest effort to enforce S°t honest saministration in find slots. Ee Sutidus abo deciiting aE : Ship he mad nuh 10 take to get it a little hore easily. It ® Be: Jae Jaws equi being e+ (MANY SUCH places dre anger so many voters? ge police “army of 0c- The gaming interests even (ONC SmbarTafe those who .. and politicians alike. And It pick mr win pools snd pole muntained by veterans’ organ, FT IS very hard to find a cupation” to Gary without a now are busily. trying to con- SRE WON sploreement. into go could put & crimp in 8 10t of bb” | grh Pools and policy zations. It is sald some of yoier who isn't a member of & specific request from local of- vince the politicians, through a Could put & erie n 4 lot of bi” operations are ilegal in Indi these “posts” would have 10 yoerans “post” of fraternal fidials. That 18 recognized as a channels, that such vengeance It's & large order for such s been fooling the politicians mit sale Of liquor of other Al Slot Machines ty. Keep ihe Onder of something or other. quick but not painiess way of Would be inevitable. seemingly simple change of heen he ; Ag we ep Yet it is reported that may- committing political suicide. Maybe the voters could be liquor enforcement policy. But ever fooled the public. ‘which are operating outside the Then there are the fraternal D DAlf of the gambling devices ® = ® appeased by the fact that a this is the time for all good . This isn’t an essay on the law. It is this law the admin- organizations ‘uncom- nm such hangouts of strictly SO, AT the crossroads, polit- major step “ad been taken men to come to the aid of the leaders moral evils of gambling. From . istration is preparing to. en: ey Amirations. 3 Jt neon, nice people are syndicate icos are trapped between the toward making Indiana an un- Democratic Party, and the risk At a moral standpoint it could be force for the first time, boasting that the mortgage on OWned or licensed. The informa- solid joiners on one hand, the profitable place in which to may prove well worth taking. some the laws that are wrong for Politicians currently enjoy the new “hall” was paid off tion, of course, can’t be called irate ladies on the other, and & flaunt the laws—all laws. As for the posts and fraternal tion that their all we know. Fact is, as long lousy reputations as a class due with unbelievable speed ~~ by reliable in view of the fact that political trap either way. Or i§ Maybe such a policy would help = orders, it once became apparent can't very well ; as some laws are enforced and in a major part to the fact slots. Even an occasional police people who know such things it? That's where the liquor en- legitimate liquor interest to get that abstinence in drinking openly by Qn, x otliers are not, Hoosiers can that a few of them have been fraternity, it is rumored, is sup- in such detail usually aren't forcement crackdown can, and out from under the cloud of could not be enforced by law. force the liquor and gaming stop trying to build incorruptl- kidded for years by thos who ported by extracting duss pain. very reliable. maybe will, take a hand. suspicion hat their business is Maybe this is the time for them laws. ot Washington Calling— W--id Reporf— - |Our Fair City—
How Many A-Bombs? No One Knows, but Anparently. ‘Plenty’
~ * Testimony Indicates a Large Supply; : Staff Chiefs Worried Over Tito
use them if necessary to defend the democracies.
even ANUIbeEr of our bombs has never been announced. -
chairman of general advisory committee of Atomic Energy Commission. Sen. Millard Tydings (D. Md.), now chairman of Armed
Services Committee, questioned him: OPPENHEIMER:
“If we wanted to have, I will say, 1000 bombs, two years would be a lot of work, and the whole country
would feel it.” TYDINGS: “In other words, it would take two years." OPPENHEIMER: “Yes, to accumulate 1000 bombs.” TYDINGS: “If it were decided to make bombs from our peacetime atomic energy, how long would it take us to complete 2002" > : OPPENHEIMER: “Maybe a
little over a year.” / TYDINGS: “How long would it
alliance with southern
for comeback. \ = =» =
More Price Cuts
THE WEEK on price front and fifth
take us to make 50?" A year. Armstrong Cork Co. ijtical system. It is another y OPPENHEIMER: Maye a dropped prices 3 {0 § per cent onin the fulfillment of a destined) . t tile. : role with the United States leadTYDINGS: “So that we are ap, scrap had its sharpest
faced with the prospect . ..” OPPENHEIMER: “I think a tinued downward. Three
per cent. But
panies, half cent a gallon. » » ”
hasbeen operating steadily, but not in ‘way to “make the whole Study Farm Prices
country feel it.”
! Apr. 9—How many atomic bombs? We don’t know, but there's evidence a large supply backs up-President Truman's statement this week that he would
honeymoon isn’t over; that recei:t Democrats has hurt northern GOP chances
Ford and Nash became fourth auto makers to announce cuts. General Cable Co. cut building wire. It's now 20 to 25 per cent lower than at first of
break in years. One big coffee company cut its wholesale price half cent a pound. Lead concarpet companies cut prices 10 to 20
i line prices were raised by some of the big eastern com-
BY YEAR'S end, Agriculture
Belgian Banks L As Atlantic Pact Sp
Old Fears Wane, ‘New Goals Rise
By GORDON CUMMING F
unity and a demand for action based upon the newly-created feeling of security are the direct and gratifying results of the Atlantic
stated today,
- But evidence that we have many comes from public|dations adopting the same paper 4 Aetimny given Dees Bi-1048- by Dri Hapead i Ee) Soro A ade}
rier. 4m Even before the pact of alliance has been ratified by the various legislatures, it has ad a surge of vigor to every negotia-tion-now under way. Minds hitherto conditioned by fear reach out for new goals. The political and economic targets of last month have been set measurably higher This is the effect desired by all
‘are convinced of the rightness of the Atlantic Alliance. = Deep Urge to Get On It is the deep urge to get on with the demonstration in Europe of the American economic ahd po-
ing Europe away from war instead of into a new conflict.
Pact, reports from Washington
Americans who have supportediern
stepitheir promised self-government,
i Austria
Dean Acheson; British Foreign
opportunity for
cupation which by its very nature is not democratic at all. Success of the new accord will 'depend, however, on the methods through which it is applied. If the Germans actually are to have
then Allied authority must be sharply . And there are many occupation officials who won't like that. .
SEVEN former German gener-
weapons. Faced
by an expanding Russia, ‘Ithe western powers have united to achieve the security required to move forward into.the new eco-
als were revealed Friday as fa-
In yoring a revived German army to
Soviet pressure from .the east.
ministers of the Western Big Three powers met in gn dy a re Ta Sours aDy 98 t A 3 ary “a Soc viny Eond Bevin; and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, .
Their opinion is given in a pam-| | phlet published by the Austrian mic-ray researcher stood high on
* Seeks Tito's Scalp
fiscal year it wants to spend $210 million—just gbout what we lost this" year supporting price of potatoes.
JOINT CHIEFS of staff have
officials think they'll have évidence that crop surpluses can’t be eliminated by lowering government price floors. They low-,
ered potato floor from 90 to 60)
per cent of ‘parity for new potato and already have $15 mil 1 invested in holding up prices
of early spring potatoes at lower} floors
nomic and political unity. From a
farm law-——which administra is to use flexible price supports
to encourage production of various crops.
volved... Yugoslavia’s one trouble] New
Basic idea of Alken-Hope tion mow seeks to supplant— or discourage administration program
(army leaders.
and
stem .Stalin, sounded out the unidentified former Wehrmacht leaders who emerged
untainted by war guilt trials. y A “German armament industry is unnecessary,” says the former
long, and it would be strategically risky as well as harmful to economic revival.”
; —spot ‘where we have no commif-
~ in the North Atlantic Pact. We'd
ments. But joint chiefs worry about what a Stalinist Yugoslavia will mean to Greece. If Tito falls, they'll have to resurvey our position there as well as in Italy. Russian push in the Balkans would scare smaller nations
have to rush schedule. :
& 5 =» Urged for Key Post IT LOOKS as if Floyd Odlum ‘will be next chairman of National Security Resources Board. He's chairman of Consolidated
arms ahead of
proposes 100 per cent support for wheat, cotton, _ : eggs, chickens, beef cattle and lambs. Southerners like this. | New pi departs widely from Democratic platform. It's closer to what Henry Wallace proposed. * » LJ nw OK’s Red Visa UNCLE SAM'S about to let several more Européin Commies enter this country for short stays. Visa has been approved for Arthur J. Horner, British Communist labor leader. He'll attend meeting of coal fines committee of international labor organization in Pittsburgh Apr. 20. Other
Vultee, was with Fs WPS during war. § And he was heavy contribuocratic camBronx boss, has * been boosting | Odium. Both saw President
Mr. Odlum
Truman this week. But Mr. Truman hasn’t admitted, yet, that he’s given (up on” Mon Wallgren. - # . ‘A New York firm is offering
Senators a gadget which, they say, will reveal whether
Price: . No buyers yet, that we know of.
‘Ike’ Hints : Change
{applications are pending. But {State and Justice Departments [take dim view of applications
tobacco, milk, vl
United States great. ” # »
‘United Nations | ANDREI GROMYKQ charged in the United Nations yesterday| that the North Atlantic Pact is a “military and political” pilot directed against Russia and eastern
Europe.
/that call for transcontinental | barnstorming, { | When House Un-American Ae-| [tivities Committee starts hearings! {Apr. 25, first witness will be Steve Nelson, western Pennsylvania! Communist chairman, | Committee says it has evidence! involving him in two cases. One {1s alleged industrial espionage, {ring operated through American i Slav Congress and other front or-| |ganizations. Other is scientist X| jcase, involving transmission of! {atomic information to Russians. | =
To Show Him | SOUTHERN S
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out aggressive aims.”
Hector McNeil, Britain's Min. the Cheering ltster of State, snapped back that|'he Peoples Front, which even Mr. Gromyko’s statements consti-| tuted a “violent. undignified pro-|
paganda attack.” Mr. Gromyko, who has
pact
ground of a better system, Europe : can erect a new state bound by Weapons as well as top leadership |
the same ties that have made the|
Speaking bluntly in his first major address as First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, Mr, Gromyko told the 58nation political committee that the big three powers want £5‘ hold Italy’s former colonies to “carry
cast, most of Russia's 30 vetoes in the! {United Nations, used the issue of | the Italian colonies to uncork| Russia's long-¥xpected attack on the 12-nation mutual assistance! signed in Washington Mon-|
Offering the concept of a German army as a “lengthened arm of the American,” the anonymous | ex-generals say that American |
would be required. But they stipu|1ate “a small staff of German experts and a German operational {headquarters ta transmit orders 0 German troops and commaners.”
Spearhead Push for Single Currency urs Drive for Europe PRE ew 8 Seeking to Raze
conference on steps for per- | State
war in Yugoslavia in order to destroy her leaders.
Tito conceded Yugoslavia i in|
He teante. : Palestine in violation. of ‘the UN bond. buyers. are. shying. away. from. them, do not consider.
an Unity
Tariff Barriers
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China
COMMUNIST armies offensives in eastern and central
a “difficult” situation, but he re-|¢,iks
jected co-operation with the “war West. He said Yugo slavia will continue to build a socialist state in her own way. “Of course, we will trade with the West,” he added. Tito spoke for two ho and 10 minutes. It was his terest declaration since his break with the Cominform was made public June 28, 1948. He called upon the Peoples Front (the combination of political parties that makes up the government) to resist the Comin-
form's “notorious appeal to fore-|
|ibly the present leader
remove ship of Yugoslavia . . . this
in our country.”
serve as » defensive wall against Soviet Union
AN ATOMIC expert and a cos
Research Institute for p vlitien the 1ist of 191 Russian scientists ies, headed US“ who shared in this year's $3 mil ; iria's rising party leader, Dr. Het 1ion Stalin prize awards, it was A SPOKESMAN Yor
Dr. Kraus, standard-bearer of
jennounced today.
ons. The Council of Ministers (cab
sphere of the atomic nucleus.” No elaboration was offered. Another top award was won by Moscow University Prof. Sergei M. Vernov “for experimental research in cosmic rays.” (Btudy of the atoniic nucleus! is fundamental in the develop-| ment of atomic bombs. Relative-| ly little is known about cosmic rays, but it has been estimated that if their energy could be harnessed it would be many times as destructive as the present atomic explosives.)
a Yugoslavia | MARSHAL TITO declared yes- | terday that “certain” capitalistic] countries had succeeded in plant | ing undercover agents in the high, command of Eastern Europe's Communist parties and even in| ithe Communist Information Bu-| ireau (Cominform) itself. { { This is the Cominform, he told] Third Congress of]
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Trans-Jordan
GLUBB PASHA, almbst-legend-ary British chief of the Arab Legion, said today that Israel won control of - Palestine " a “virtual European invasion” which brought a “new, vicious imperialism to the Middle East.” | The veteran desert fighter—officially Brigadier John Bagot Glubb-—said today that the Jewish state won Palestine, not on
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means an attempt to provoke civil war
inet) announced that a 200,000 o
Ni ng. while al base at Hankow. =
West Germany
change for machinery, chemicals and other manufactured products, ¥ ” . «
Hungary
jected by the government, news-
ment accused the United States of being the one violating treaty obligations and charged that raclal discrimination still exists in America. : The British protest was dismissed as merely an: echo of American views, ¥
Japan
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the only batting asing population. The Yomiuri called
newspaper in an editorial for the government to make a “courageous decision” and outlaw births above a desig-
at the same time, legalize abor-
= |tions,
{ficial said today.
Yomiuri ficial consent to public sale of
approved contraceptives as “a step in the direction,” but said this was not enough. ® » . Switzerland
VICTOR KRAVCHENKO has been “given to understand” that proposed visit to Switzerland is “not desired.” a
opened |
today. | Replying to British and Ameri-
nated Hmit for each family and,
Peles authority, condemn land and issue bonds,
fru, while the Somes the tr Other ternative to aoe Arkin, da thal maschante and dase — pgs med, 5 oh a owners underwrite bonds, take chance on et w
Bonds Prove Obstacle 5 To Off-Street Parking; Program Still Stymied
| street parking enterprises.
Feeney Becomes Honorary ‘Dunker’; New Soap Opera:. ‘Trials of Tuffy’ OFF-STREET parking is still in doldrums. Even after Logialeturs Juayed 3 Jaw giving ORY sight to set up parking program
The catch, informed sources say, is the bonds. The usual eity
they could pool their money and set up own privately financed off- - Until then, and it’ may be a long. long time, motorists who insist on bringing cars downtown will have to hunt up a parking
fee, just as they always have,
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ting new war beforé-any peace lowship), has
stepping ’ publicly on the big central Chinese yo donut dunking . . .
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treaty violations have been re parently are “pot? “impervious.
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COMPULSORY birth control | London County Council developed was advocated today by one of a backroom fight for political ng Tokyo's largest newspapers asi control tonight while election refective means of com-{guits showed Conservatives were | toppling labor from power in
the recent of-]
high police of-| corded.
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sociation (For the encouragement of Good Cheer and Good Felbeen pressnted with a Downyflake Donut Scroll. 1 “As p symbol of his ability and furtherance of the art of doput dunking.” says the Association. “For months our spies have| one car had a bent-in front grill and back fenders. 3 :
to answer “secret” ” asking how they hire city | workers. .
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MERCHANTS’ Armored Cars
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more,
fender crumpled; What's
Tories Toppling Labor in Britain
LONDON, Apr. § (UP) — The
” . . GOP. Brickbats HERE'S ONE you can add to growing list of squawks Republiicans may be to use ‘against Democrats in the 1950 Into the ale trem ooh eligi { arm sells’ ‘field tile to
other counties across the nation. The Laborites, who suffered a baildt-box defeat and a voting tie in the London election, -came up with an intricate “plan” to run the Council. Conservatives cried, “dirty trick!” i Meanwhile, more reports of Conservative victory rolied in. In Norfolk, the Laborites lost 20 seats. In Denbighshire, they dro three. ry re result was still in from 23
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